Interior of the show house in Bedřichov

Sample House with a Pattern
At the end of 2020, we were approached by our long-time client and developer with a project for the interior of a sample mountain house in Bedřichov. By that time, the houses were already under construction, and our task was to create a comfortable and cozy environment for future, at that time unknown, owners. The shapes and layouts of all the buildings had already been very well thought out; our job was to breathe life into the otherwise simple internal envelope (structure) of the house.
Both living floors were built using a dry method from wooden sandwich panels, which were also covered on the walls and ceilings with visible bio-boards in the interior. Each of the four houses was unique in its choice of different wood in the interior. We were assigned the sample interior with a surface made of bleached SPRUCE.
What awaited us? Vast wooden wall surfaces, massive wooden beams on the ceiling, gray large-format floor tiles, and large wood-aluminum windows with anthracite on the exterior - quite a common set of materials and colors for a developer's project in the mountains. And we had to design a sample interior.
Sample, but without a pattern? No! We began to explore the possibilities of various patterns and ornaments, which have always been typical for the furnishings of our grandmothers' cottages. We searched for a contemporary and slightly universal paraphrase of carpentry and joinery planed details, painted chests, or embroidered doilies. And all of this in the context of a developer's mountain house that should appeal to a broader clientele.
The clean wooden surfaces of the walls and ceilings practically called for detail, so we applied a spruce cladding with a simple and repeatable graphic to them. The milled grooves in two directions subtly played with a rhythm that is engaging but does not disrupt the simplicity of the interior. This was not only on the ceilings in the living room but also on the walls of the stairwell, or on the backs of bathroom cabinets or bookshelves.
The other wooden constructions also inspired us to incorporate them into the shapes of the furniture. The ceiling beams were not the only prominent element in the living space: we decided to continue them on the walls. Here, they became supporting elements for the bookshelves and niches for wood. The remaining built-in furniture was left in subtle anthracite colors at the client's request. Only in the kitchen did we manage to insert a slightly accentuating yellow-orange MDF board into the calm tones, which, like a fire in the fireplace, creates the "warmth" of home.
Our tip: To ensure that warmth and coziness flow throughout the house, it is "necessary" to further equip the sample mountain cottage with human hands and hearts. Therefore, large seating benches and the window area in the dining room await upholstered seats and cushions, the floors for decorative carpets, and shelves for the personal items of future owners. This should be done in accordance with the taste of the future inhabitants. If they are sensitive, everything will blend gracefully with the "pattern" of the sample house.